Max Frost And The Troopers were a fictional group created for the 1968 hippie-exploitation movie, Wild In The Streets. Frost was actor Christopher Jones (more interestingly, the Troopers’ drummer was a young Richard Pryor). Their role in the film was to gain voting rights for 14-year-olds. Frost is elected president of the USA at the movie’s climax, and he orders everyone over 30 into concentration camps, where they are forced to take LSD.
His band’s songs were equally absurd semi-political rants (‘14 Or Fight’) save for one bona fide folk-punk classic, ‘Shape Of Things To Come’. Written by Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil, the song was actually recorded by a band called the 13th Power. However, it was released under the name Max Frost And The Troopers to capitalize on the movie’s success with the youth market, and eventually reached number 22 in the USA.(allmusic.com)
All tracks were recorded by the band The 13th Power except from the bonus tracks Les Baxter recorded track13, track 15 by Jerry Howard, the tracks 16 and 17 by The Second Time, track 18 by The Gurus and track 19 originally released 1960.
A lot of real great garage pop songs here.
Frank
